Steve Adeff wrote: >On Friday 13 January 2006 09:52, Luis Mourao wrote: > > >>Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>What do you think about the choices? >>> >>>>Is the Athlon 64 3000+ adequate for 1080p? >>>>Mythtv has support for 7.1 channels? >>>> >>>> >>>well, since the pvr-150 only captures sdtv i'm kinda confused as to >>>why you're worried about hdtv. as for how much processor is required >>>for hdtv and the 7.1 sound, that has been discussed ad nauseam, search >>>the archives: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ >>> >>> >> Ok, I'll search the archives. >> Nevertheless, if you see something "strange" or "bad choice" in my >>hardware list, please notify me. >> >> I'm worry about hdtv because it will be something that I will use in the >>future (I live in Portugal), and then, I only will need a hdtv card to >>receive digital TV. >> >> >the socket 754 doesn't give much upgrade options, which may or may not bother >you. Everything else looks fine. 1080p playback should be fine too. > Buying for upgrade is a bad choice, IMHO. Even if you buy a 939-pin processor right now, unless you buy an upgrade processor really soon, you'll have missed out because AMD is switching to socket M2 (the 940-pin dual-channel memory capable socket) this year. Since you can't buy socket M2 motherboards/CPU's now, what's the point in buying a 939-pin for "upgrade options?"
Besides, when it comes time to "upgrade," you're usually better off buying a new system, anyway. Think of all the pieces of the computer that change on varying schedules--case/power supply style (AT/ATX/BTU--I mean BTX ;), RAM (DRAM (in all its versions)/SDR SDRAM/RDRAM/DDR SDRAM/DDR2 SDRAM/XDR), buses (EISA/PCI/PCI-E and VLB/AGP 3.3v/AGP 1.5v and IDE/EIDE/SATA not to mention AMR/ACR/CNR), and we've already mentioned processor sockets. And, the examples are just the ones that have already changed--no future versions are listed. Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
